Quotes by English Authors - Page 5

Praise the sea on shore remain.
John Florio
I must go down to the seas again to the lonely sea and the sky And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.
John Masefield
There is a pleasure sure In being mad which none but madmen know!
John Dryden
If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning we may study his commentators.
William Hazlitt
If I had read as much as other men I should have known no more than they.
Thomas Hobbes
Deep-versed in books And shallow in himself.
John Milton
Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.
William Hazlitt
I would live to study not study to live.
Francis Bacon
They say so is half a lie.
Thomas Fuller
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
William Shakespeare
Ay every inch a king.
William Shakespeare
Better hazard once than always be in fear.
Thomas Fuller
The ambitious climb high and perilous stairs and never care how to come down the desire of rising hath swallowed up their fear of a fall.
Thomas Adams
He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea.
Thomas Fuller
This above all: to thine own self be true.
William Shakespeare
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.
Thomas Paine
We had as lief not be as not be ourselves.
William Hazlitt
The pleasures of the rich are bought with the tears of the poor.
Thomas Fuller
It is essential to the triumph of reform that it shall never succeed.
William Hazlitt
In taking revenge a man is but equal to his enemy but in passing it over he is his superior.
Sir Francis Bacon
Not to be provoked is best but if moved never correct till the fume is spent for every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.
William Penn
Absence of occupation is not rest A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.
William Cowper
Welcome death quoth the rat when the trap fell.
Thomas Fuller
Never tell your resolution beforehand.
John Selden
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
John Dryden
The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation that away Men are but gilded loam or painted clay.
William Shakespeare
There was never law or sect or opinion did so much magnify goodness as the Christian religion doth.
Sir Francis Bacon
One religion is as true as another.
Henry Burton
Religion if in heavenly truths attired Needs only to be seen to be admired.
William Cowper
A good life is the only religion.
Thomas Fuller
Religion is nothing else but love to God and man.
William Penn
He that hath no cross deserves no crown.
Francis Quarles
The world is my country all mankind are my brethren and to do good is my religion.
Thomas Paine
Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of Man.
Francis Bacon
My own mind is my own church.
Thomas Paine
Fortune is like the market where many times if you can stay a little the price will fall.
Francis Bacon
Every why hath a wherefore.
William Shakespeare
I have no other but a woman's reason. I think him so because I think him so.
William Shakespeare
A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
Thomas Fuller
Where I cannot satisfy my reason I love to humour my fancy.
Sir Thomas Browne
The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this that the beast does but know but the man knows that he knows.
John Donne
Reason is also choice.
John Milton
Prospect is often better than possession.
Thomas Fuller
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they might have been.
William Hazlitt
Good is not good where better is expected.
Thomas Fuller
Vexed sailors curse the rain for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.
Edmund Waller
Reading maketh a full man.
Sir Francis Bacon
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Joseph Addison
Bland as a Jesuit sober as a hymn.
William Ernest Henley
A man surprised is half beaten.
Thomas Fuller
Forgetting of a wrong is a mild revenge.
Thomas Fuller
You must lose a fly to catch a trout.
George Herbert
We would not listen to those who were wont to say the voice of the people is the voice of God for the voice of the mob is near akin to madness.
Alcuin
The public have neither shame nor gratitude.
William Hazlitt
He that doth the ravens feed. Yea providently caters for the sparrow. Be comfort to my age!
William Shakespeare
And pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform. Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
Joseph Addison
There is a divinity that shapes our ends Rough-hew them how we will.
William Shakespeare
Modest doubt is call'd The beacon of the wise.
William Shakespeare
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.
Francis Bacon
The harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap we esteem too lightly 'tis dearness only that gives everything it's value.
Thomas Paine